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Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The grid is everywhere, sending power to the light switch on the wall and water to the faucet in the kitchen. With energy prices soaring, the housing market in shambles, and unemployment looming, more and more Americans are choosing to free themselves from dependence on the grid.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
From Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Newjack, a passage through an America lived wild and off the grid, where along with independence and stunning views come fierce winds, neighbors with criminal pasts, and minimal government and medical services. "In these dispatches, [Conover] invites readers to ride shotgun along an unraveling edge of the American West, where sepia-toned myths about making a fresh...
Author
Publisher
Storey Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Starting off as a young, single woman with a desk job and a city apartment, Woginrich set out to build a more self-sufficient lifestyle by learning homesteading skills. This is the story of her joyful, dramatic, and sometimes sorrowful journey toward self-reliance.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
National Geographic's highest-rated series returns for season three with new preppers, new drama, and incredible new ways to bug in our bug out. Explore the lives of otherwise ordinary Americans who are preparing for the end of the world as we know it.
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Pubishing
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Mini farming describes a holistic approach to small-area farming that will show you how to produce 85 percent of an average family's food on just a quarter acre-and earn $10,000 in cash annually while spending less than half the time that an ordinary job would require. Now expanding exponentially on his bestselling Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on ¼ Acre, Brett Markham gives you tips, tricks, and planning advice on how to make the most of your mini...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Pub
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
City-dwellers across the country are finding creative new ways to live, and urban farmers are reclaiming heirloom agrarian practices as strategies for responsible living. Get to know real people who are changing their lives and the lives of their neighbors through the urban homesteading movement.
Publisher
Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Pop culture phenomenon returns for a second season of seventeen episodes. Doomsday Preppers explores the lives of otherwise ordinary Americans who are preparing for the end of the world as we know it. Unique in their beliefs, motivations, and strategies, preppers will go to whatever lengths they can to make sure they are prepared for any of life's uncertainties.
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Huw Richards and Sam Cooper have spent the past two years planning and trialing their very own self-sufficiency garden in a 10x12.5m plot and now they've worked out the perfect formula. Grow five portions of nutritious veg a day for four people following their month-by-month growing plan, which is realistic and flexible with cost, space, and time in mind."--Provided by the publisher.
11) Life off grid
Series
Publisher
Fighting Chance Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A two-year journey exploring the lives of Canadians in every province and territory who have made the choice to disconnect. Life Off Grid is a film about people who have chosen to build their lives around renewable energy, with beautiful, inspiring, and often challenging results.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Old-Fashioned on Purpose, Winger shows how simplifying our lives and adopting retro skills such as gardening and handiwork can be the key to creating the happy and healthy life we're yearning for. Inside these pages, readers will learn how to find joy in the kitchen, proven strategies for growing your own groceries, how to craft a more grounded routine, and clever tips and creative DIYs to help you embark on your old-fashioned journey. This inspiring...
Author
Series
Publisher
Welbeck
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Prepare for worst-case scenarios whatever your living space. Our comfortable urban lives can be disrupted at a moment's notice. Whether by global disasters such as pandemic or war, or local catastrophes such as wildfires, floods or supply issues; you need to know how to respond to a variety of emergencies. Jim Cobb, an authority on disaster readiness, introduces you to techniques and strategies to prepare your home and loved ones. These simple measures...
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Leigh Bowers has never felt more alone. After being caught illegally administering Hecate's Key- a medicinal mushroom to brings peace to terminally ill patients- Leigh has lost her mother, her job, her marriage, and primary custody of her daughter. But Leigh's life takes a hair-pin turn when Jennifer Hex, an enigmatic women from her past, reemerges. Jennifer, a guru attuned to transcendent earthly wonders, crossing paths with a lost woman like Leigh...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Pub
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
Mini Farming describes a holistic approach to small-area farming that will show you how to produce 85 percent of an average family's food on just a quarter acre -- and earn $10,000 in cash annually while spending less than half the time that an ordinary job would require. Even if you have never been a farmer or a gardener, this book covers everything you need to know to get started: buying and saving seeds, starting seedlings, establishing raised...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Ellie, Chloe and Rachel are friends (sort of); waitresses at the same tired bar in the Arkansas college town they've stuck around in too long. Each is becoming unmoored in her own way: Ellie obliterates all feeling with alcohol and self-destructive acts of sexual promiscuity; Chloe pulls out patches of her hair and struggles to keep incipient mental illness at bay; changeable Rachel has fallen under the sway of a messianic boyfriend with whom she's...
Author
Series
Grass kings volume 3
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the lives of a self-suffcient trailer park community.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Rigel Harman's parents divorce, she and her sisters must move from the Alaskan wilderness to suburban Connecticut, and while she yearns to return in a year, she eventually realizes she must move forward.
Eleven-year-old Rigel Harman loves her life in off-the-grid Alaska. She hunts rabbits, takes correspondence classes, and doesn't mind not having electricity or running water. When her parents divorce, Rigel and her sisters have...
Author
Series
Grass kings volume 1
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the lives of a self-sufficient trailer park community.
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